Years to Victory"Beginning with 'the loneliest man in the world,' General Dwight D. Eisenhower, making his decision to proceed with Operation Overlord, Years to Victory recounts the last years of World War II from the Allied landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, to the utter defeat and unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan. As the dignitaries assembled on the deck of the United States battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on the morning of September 2, 1945, the Axis had been totally destroyed."--Book Jacket. |
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the decision to employ the Kamikaze attacks arose spontaneously among the pilots themselves . This was not suicide ! ( wrote Saburo Sakai , one of Japan's foremost fighter pilots ) . These men , young and old , were not dying in vain .
the decision to employ the Kamikaze attacks arose spontaneously among the pilots themselves . This was not suicide ! ( wrote Saburo Sakai , one of Japan's foremost fighter pilots ) . These men , young and old , were not dying in vain .
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On January 5 , the newly developed airstrips on Mindoro were socked in , so Oldendorf's ships had to depend on their own resources for defense against the Kamikazes . A CAP from the escort carriers managed to shoot down or chase off ...
On January 5 , the newly developed airstrips on Mindoro were socked in , so Oldendorf's ships had to depend on their own resources for defense against the Kamikazes . A CAP from the escort carriers managed to shoot down or chase off ...
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Australia was turning into a hard - luck ship , and that afternoon had a second Kamikaze drop in at a cost of another fourteen killed and twenty - six wounded . Louisville also took another Kamikaze which killed Rear Admiral Theodore E.
Australia was turning into a hard - luck ship , and that afternoon had a second Kamikaze drop in at a cost of another fourteen killed and twenty - six wounded . Louisville also took another Kamikaze which killed Rear Admiral Theodore E.
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Normandy to Notre Dame | 1 |
New Guinea and the Marianas | 57 |
Victory Is Everywhere | 109 |
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| Titel | Years to Victory |
| Autor/in | Henry Hitch Adams |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | McKay, 1973 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Nov. 2006 |
| ISBN | 0679140077, 9780679140078 |
| Länge | 507 Seiten |
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